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by Roger W. Shuy
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In The Language of Fraud Cases, Roger Shuy follows the now well-established format of his previous volumes on language and law. He discusses here eight cases that he himself has consulted on, and that illustrate how linguistics can help to solve the various problems that arise in trying to define...
Body Language from Head to Toe
Expressions, idioms, slang, and quotes related to body parts
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Written by a physician, Body Language from Head to Toe is a “dictionary” of American idioms and other expressions that contain the name of a body part.The use of body part-related expressions is both interesting and fun. This book contains about 2,000 such idioms, words, and expressions, such as...
Publicity Push
How to Build and Sustain a Media Profile
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The Publicity Push is designed for the publicity novice and for those who want to self-manage their media activities. The book guides the reader through the communication process, explains how to design effective publicity programs, analyses what makes a newsworthy story, demonstrates how to write...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical...
by Karen Roehr-Brackin
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition is the first book to present an in-depth overview of metalinguistic awareness as it relates to SLA. In this volume, Roehr-Brackin discusses metalinguistic awareness in the context of both child and adult language learning, and outlines the various...
by Pablo Kirtchuk
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language requires investigation within a broad framework, which can only be achieved if the elements studied belong to all realms of verbal (and to some extent non-verbal) communication. Grammar is merely the systematized aspect of language: by drawing on data from oral communication in a number of...
Communicative Action
Selected Papers of the 2013 IEAS Conference on Language and Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
This book focuses on the connection between action and verbal communication, exploring topics such as the mechanisms of language processing, action processing, voluntary and involuntary actions, knowledge of language and assertion. Communication modelling and aspects of communicative actions are considered,...
Tagger
Graffiti Was His Life -- and Soul (Theatre/Screenplay Version)
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
"I love using Reader's Theatre in my classroom," . . . "When will they make a movie out of your books?" . . . "I love performing arts!" Comments such as these from loyal fans and teachers motivated Mary A. Monroe to write a Theatre/Screenplay version of her popular teen...
Swearing in English
Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English explores questions such as these and considers at...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book presents an overview of revisiting the assessment of language abilities. It also showcases how the measurement of such constructs can result in negative or positive washback and how outcomes might be conducive to repercussions that decide on the future of many stakeholders. The 23 chapters...
Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation
A Practitioner Perspective from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This book explores how complex systems theory can contribute to the understanding of classroom language learner motivation through an extended examination of one particular, situated research project. Working from the lived experience of the participants, the study describes how action research methods...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Development is the first comprehensive overview of the field of sociocultural second language acquisition (SLA). In 35 chapters, each written by an expert in the area, this book offers perspectives on both the theoretical and practical...
by Rebecca A. Vorsah BEd (Arts) MEd
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
The content of this resourceful book contains reading educative and interesting short stories, poems, speech work, phonetics, grammar, vocabulary building, literature, picture description, and lots of exercises. Children can recite any of the poems during class competition or inter- schools competition....
Interaction in the Language Curriculum
Awareness, Autonomy and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Interaction in the Language Curriculum offers an innovative theory of language education integrating curriculum practice, research and teaching. It emphasises the interdependence of knowledge and values and stresses the central importance of learning as a social process.
Leo van Lier argues...